Invitation from the Newark Organizers Training Institute on June 7, 1967 to attend an all-day meeting to plan “Summer Programs for the Newark Movement.” Among the topics to be discussed was “stopping the Medical School.”

Agreement reached on June 12, 1967 between the City of Newark, the Newark Housing Authority, and the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry. In the agreement, the City of Newark agrees to deliver land to the college, even though the areas had not yet been deemed “blighted” and the “blight hearings” were still taking place.

Instructional leaflet from an unnamed “veteran of Newark’s blight wars of the 1950’s and 1960’s” explaining how blight hearings work and offering suggestions for community opposition to a blight declaration.

Survey prepared by A.L. Oliver, Assistant Community Action Coordinator, on the proposed site of the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry (UMDNJ). In his survey, Mr. Oliver provides population demographics, housing statistics and conditions, and reasons for community opposition to the proposed medical school.

Map of the proposed Route 75 “Midtown Connector” highway in Newark, prepared by the Division of City Planning. Highway construction in northern urban areas has historically involved the destruction of predominantly Black communities for the benefit of predominantly white suburban commuters. Route 75 was one of the most heavily-contested commuter highway proposals in Newark. Despite years of opposition from Black and Puerto Rican communities in Newark, city officials continued to push forward with plans for the highway’s construction, before finally abandoning the project.

Article from the Advance, an African-American newspaper, covering the proposed construction of Routes 75, 78, and 280 through Newark. Highway construction in northern urban areas has historically involved the destruction of predominantly Black communities for the benefit of predominantly white suburban commuters. Route 75 was one of the most heavily-contested commuter highway proposals in Newark.

Map of proposed urban renewal projects in Newark from the city’s 1964 Master Plan prepared by the Central Planning Board. Nearly all of the urban renewal projects were to be located in the Central Ward, where the majority of the city’s black and Puerto Rican communities lived and worked. Though these communities were to be deeply impacted by urban renewal projects, they had very little representation in the planning processes.

This map of “Generalized Environments” in Newark depicts the conditions of buildings in the city in the 1960s. Predominantly white, middle-to-upper class neighborhoods such as Vailsburg, Weequahic, and Forest Hill are seen to be “substantially sound,” while predominantly black, poor and working class neighborhoods in the Central Ward are classified as “predominantly blight.”